, 1887-08-04

OnlO Will baCk Ler own JpLu SLCr-
man FOR the presidency. 1t will now
be Interesting to watch honest John
sreaSting the waves Of Blaine's pop
ularity till nominating time comes
next year.
A Tseoms paper says the Uniyer-
sity question is dead for the present.
Maybe the Tacoma end of it is. but
the Port Townsend end is still alive
and kicking, doing business at the
cid stand.
One OF the Tacoma editors is com
planning about the chilliness Of the
Sherman boom. 1t does seem to
bother some folks a good deal-and
it certainly fortells u chilly day next
year for the party il power.
Wonder if it did not occur to that
senatorial party, while they were in
spscting the splendid government
works at Esquimalt, that our own
government would be doing the cor
rect thing to invest a few millions in
Notifications for Puget Sound?
Undoubtedly our business men
should control that mail route and
steamboat line to Semiahmoo and
way ports. Nine men out of ten in
town will tell you SO. But the
trouble is to find men with means,
experience and Willingness to venture.
Still, we believe a joint stock COM
pany to buy the Libby would meet
with liberal subscriptions.
The government shonld reform and
rs>arrange its signal service and tcle-
graph line to Cape FlatteYy. There
are but two keepers or repairer5 for
the line for distance of about sixty
miles westward from Freshwater
Bsy-not enough to keep it in proper
repair, particularly during the winter
months. The line is liable to be
broken for days together before it can
be msnded. Then the signal station
which is at Port Angeles should be
located at Tatoosh where it would be
of vastly greater service to commerce.
We are quite astounded to read in
the Seattle POst-Intelligencer that
the Port Townsend custom house
ring" is robbing the government in
way that will speedily reduce the
treasury surplus We had no idea
there was such corruption right under
our editorial nose. Please specify
the facts MIR. P.-L We are hungry
fer facts. Give us the names of the
guilty ones, and specify their acts of
dishonesty. The public has right
TO know.
Speaking Of private subscriptions
to pay the expense of carrying wheat
from Stuck junction to Seattle, the
Press OF that city says: "Ths sub
seriptioa OF S2500 by Ex-Governor
Squire is very generous one. Mr..
Arthur A. Denny, we are informed,
has promised ths same amount. Mr
Leigh Hunt has subscribed $1,000,
and ether large subscriptions are
being discussed, and will doubtless
be pat in shape Immediately. There
il no doubt that more than sufficient
next few days. Seattle business men
have always shown themselves equal
10 any emergency that requires time,
money and united actioa."
In looking over our new public
building, now we'll under way, one
sannst help wondering whether it
will be better advertisement for the
town, or for the contractors, or for
the superintendent, or for the quarry.
Evidently Chuckanut is yielding the
cream of its product for our benefit,
or else it yields cream all the time.
The stone certainly cannot be sur
passed in quality anywhere. Visitors
all admire the fine material that is
going into the new building, as we'll
a. the handsome and substantial
manner in which it is being put to-
ssther. The effect when the building
il completed cannot fail to become
imposing. Some idea of what the
Chuckanut quarry can produce may
be inferred from the fact that solid
cube Of stone was blsated out there a
stort time ago that measured Sx14
in size and GO feet long.
Mr.. Smiths article on the Clalam
county road, and farming lands con-
tiguous thereto between Discovery
and Ssquim Bays, is commended to
the careful perusal of our readers,
and Of those who may have imbibed
the idea that our resources in this
direction had been exhausted. JEFF
terson county evidently has great
deal Of available wild land yet suit
able for agriculture. TIE road con
Meeting this with Clallm county
might have been completed years
ago if the people had taken hold of
it. As it is, the Clalam people Will
doubtless complete their part of the
road during the summer and fall.
Ar. Smith kindly volunteered last
Nay to saperintend the expenditure
Of the money appropriated by our
commissioners, free OF expense-and
the result shows that his work has
bssr iSdiciously done.
Ever since the n. p. r. r. Co. has
been conducted in the interest of Ia